{"id":93318,"date":"2025-07-26T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93318\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:44:08","slug":"capitals-draft-pick-ryan-hofer-scores-echls-goal-of-the-year-honor-for-2024-25-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93318\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals draft pick Ryan Hofer scores ECHL\u2019s \u2018Goal of the Year\u2019 honor for 2024-25 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending his entire rookie year pro with the Hershey Bears, <strong>Ryan Hofer<\/strong> played with the ECHL\u2019s South Carolina Stingrays for a majority of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Hofer, a Capitals\u2019 sixth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, notched 26 points (12g, 14a) in 52 games for the ECHL\u2019s best regular-season team. And one of his 12 goals received a major end-of-season honor earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The ECHL named Hofer\u2019s March 12 tally against the Greenville Swamp Rabbits as the league\u2019s \u201cGoal of the Year\u201d for the 2024-25 season. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMc_EQTu0nA\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:100%; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The tally, Hofer\u2019s ninth of the season, came in the second period of the Stringrays\u2019 5-1 victory. A hustling Hofer forced a turnover as he was backchecking a Swamp Rabbits player. The two-way centerman then picked up the loose puck near the left circle, dangled the puck between his legs, and beat Swamp Rabbits goaltender Kolby Hay with a shot to the top of the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super grateful and honored to be chosen for ECHL Goal of the Year,\u201d Hofer <a href=\"https:\/\/stingrayshockey.com\/news\/2025\/07\/ryan-hofer-nets-2024-25-echl-goal-of-the-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in an interview with the Stingrays<\/a>. \u201dI wasn\u2019t going out there looking for a goal of the year candidate, but being able to go out there and pull off a move like that in a game then be awarded for it is a really cool feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hofer will likely figure into Hershey\u2019s plans more-so in 2025-26 during the final year of his entry-level contract. The 6-foot-4, 189-pound forward could end up in one of Hershey\u2019s bottom-six center spots after veteran centermen <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/05\/23\/mike-sgarbossa-signs-hc-lugano-hershey-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Sgarbossa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/07\/25\/riley-sutter-contract-kunlun-red-star-2025-26-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Sutter left the organization<\/a> and are going overseas next season.<\/p>\n<p>During his two years in the Capitals\u2019 organization, Hofer has posted eight points (4g, 4a) in 45 games with the Hershey Bears.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending his entire rookie year pro with the Hershey Bears, Ryan Hofer played with the ECHL\u2019s South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-93318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114917950481368441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}